Abstract: The invention relates to programming hardware for useful data processing also used in the form of a suitable graphical editor. The inventive method consists in providing a plurality of modules, wherein each module can carry out at least one function for useful data processing, in defining the module connecting interfaces, in establishing, by a user, an additional connection of modules (topology) corresponding to a sequence of functions suitable for useful data processing, in classifying the modules into a plurality of module types according to predefined properties, in defining connection rules indicating admissible connections for different module types according to said types of modules in programming the hardware according to said topology.

Abstract: The invention relates to programming hardware for useful data processing also used in the form of a suitable graphical editor. The inventive method consists in providing a plurality of modules (200), wherein each module can carry out at least one function for useful data processing, in defining the module connecting interfaces (202, 210), in establishing, by a user, an additional connection of modules (topology) corresponding to a sequence of functions suitable for useful data processing, in classifying the modules into a plurality of module types according to predefined properties, in defining connection rules indicating admissible connections for different module types according to said types of modules in programming the hardware according to said topology.